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You are here Our people Reg Platt
 
Reg Platt

Reg Platt

Research Fellow

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6129
Email: r.platt@ippr.org
Twitter: @regplatt
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Energy policy
  • Climate change policy

Reg’s expertise covers the breadth of energy and climate change policy. He has worked on issues ranging from the energy markets and low carbon generation through to energy efficiency, behaviour change and sustainable consumption.

Reg regularly appears in the national media and speaks at conferences and events.

Before joining IPPR in 2008 Reg worked as an intern at the Royal Society for Arts Manufacture and Commerce. Previous to this he worked as a professional musician.

Reg holds an MSc in Environment, Science and Society with distinction from University College London and a BA in Music from Liverpool University.

In 2007 Reg co-founded Transition Town Brighton, a community-led initiative to reduce carbon emissions.

 

Publications

The true cost of energy: How competition and efficiency in the energy supply market impact on consumers’ bills

Author(s) : Reg Platt

30 Apr 2012

Green Streets, Strong Communities

Author(s) : Reg Platt

05 Jul 2011

Review of access to essential services: Financial inclusion and utilities

Author(s) : Reg Platt, Kayte Lawton

12 Oct 2010

Green Streets: Exploring the potential of community energy projects - interim report

Author(s) : Reg Platt

10 Sep 2010

Regeneration Through Co-operation: Creating a framework for communities to act together

Author(s) : Ed Cox, Reg Platt, Carey Oppenheim

22 Jul 2010

Consumer Power: A communications guide for mainstreaming lower-carbon behaviour

Author(s) : Simon Retallack, Reg Platt

17 Sep 2009

Consumer Power: How the public thinks lower-carbon behaviour could be made mainstream

Author(s) : Simon Retallack, Reg Platt

17 Sep 2009

 

Articles

The True Cost of Energy: why Ed Davey must act - 01 May 2012

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Collective switching will not fix the UK's broken energy market - 27 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Reg Platt

ITV must show BBC the way on accurate green reporting - 09 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Why economic growth is the new priority for energy - 07 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Opinion: Flaws in Policy Exchange’s report - 23 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Osborne continues to place UK’s leadership on climate change in danger - 30 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Tabloid attacks on green movement mean we have to raise our game - 29 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Think-tanks think sustainability - 25 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Reg Platt, Alex Blackburne

FiTs for what purpose? - 22 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Reg Platt

The key debates for sustainable living - 28 Oct 2011

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Capturing the benefits of the Green Deal - 07 Aug 2011

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Feed-in tariffs, false starts and headless chickens - 16 Feb 2011

Author(s) : Reg Platt

How to make money from fighting climate change - 16 Sep 2010

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Can feed-in tariffs energise the Big Society? - 14 Sep 2010

Author(s) : Reg Platt

Light at the end of the Spending Review? - 13 Sep 2010

Author(s) : Reg Platt

 

Projects

Sustainable consumption in China

The true cost of energy

Green Streets – Communities